Southern Illinois University (SIU) is a public research university in Carbondale,Illinois,United States. Chartered in 1869,SIU is the oldest and flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system. SIU enrolls students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Originally founded as a normal college,the university today provides programs in a variety of disciplines,combining a strong liberal arts tradition with a focus on research. SIU was granted limited university status in 1943 and began offering graduate degrees in 1950. A separate campus was established in Edwardsville,Illinois in 1957,eventually becoming Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale,Illinois.
Glendal William Poshard is an American educator and former politician who served as an Illinois State Senator and U.S. Congressman,serving five terms in Congress from 1989 to 1999.
The UCLA School of Medicine is the accredited medical school of the University of California,Los Angeles. Founded in 1951,it is the second medical school in the University of California system after the UCSF School of Medicine. The school was renamed in 2001 in honor of media mogul David Geffen who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds.
Michael M. Crow is an American professor,science and technology policy scholar and expert in university design. He is the 16th and current president of Arizona State University,having succeeded Lattie F. Coor on July 1,2002. He is credited with designing the New American University model,which demonstrates simultaneous educational access,comprehensive excellence and social impact.
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is a medical school located in Springfield,the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois. It is part of the Southern Illinois University system,which includes a campus in Edwardsville as well as the flagship in Carbondale. The medical school was founded in 1970 and achieved full accreditation in 1972. It was founded to relieve a chronic shortage of physicians in downstate Illinois.
John M. Dunn was the eighth president of Western Michigan University. Dunn earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Northern Illinois University,and he earned an Ed.D. in physical education from Brigham Young University.
Paul Douglas Sarvela was Professor of health education and Dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). The college is unique in being the only comprehensive,technically oriented college that is part of a major research university. Following the departure of Rita Cheng to become president of Northern Arizona University,Sarvela was named as interim chancellor on July 8,2014,and it was confirmed on July 24,2014. He was born in Gloucester,Massachusetts,and died on November 9,2014,in Carbondale,Illinois,while undergoing treatment for cancer.
The University of Missouri School of Medicine is located in the southern part of the University of Missouri campus in Columbia,Missouri. It was the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River.
The SIUE School of Nursing is an academic unit of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) located in Edwardsville,Illinois,United States. The school has nearly nine hundred (900) students enrolled in its undergraduate,graduate and postgraduate programs.
Howard S. Barrows was an American physician and medical educator who was Professor Emeritus at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine where he had previously served as Associate Dean for Educational Affairs and Chair of Medical Education. Trained as a neurologist,Barrows is best known today for his many innovations in medical education,particularly teaching using Problem-Based Learning (PBL),developed while he was a professor at McMaster University Medical School,assessing clinical skills working with simulated patients,and studying clinical reasoning using stimulated recall techniques.
Randy J. Dunn was most recently the president of Southern Illinois University. He formerly served as president of Youngstown State University and Murray State University. Both of his previous presidential terms ended in controversy. Dunn submitted his resignation as the president of Southern Illinois University on July 13,2018 amidst controversial actions within the university's system.
Phyllis M. Wise is a biomedical researcher. Most recently,she is serving as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer and President of Colorado Longitudinal Study.
Alan Michael Garber is an American physician and health economist,currently serving as the 31st president of Harvard University since January 2024.
Justin Schwartz is an American nuclear engineer and chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder,a position he has held since July 1,2024. He has spent his career as a researcher,educator,entrepreneur and academic leader.
Camara Phyllis Jones is an American physician,epidemiologist,and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism,personally mediated racism,and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor and called for actions to address structural racism.
Peter Kenneth Dorhout is an American professor of chemistry and the vice president for research at Iowa State University. He was the 2018 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As an advocate for science,he has had the opportunity to talk to United States congressional staff about the importance of basic science funding through the National Science Foundation.
Michael Amiridis is a Greek-American academic who serves as the 30th president of the University of South Carolina. Prior to this position,he served as chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago from 2015 to 2022.
Dennis A. Mitchell is a Canadian-American university leader and scholar of dental medicine. He currently serves as executive vice president for university life,senior vice provost for faculty advancement,and professor of dental medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center at Columbia University.
Karen J. Colley is an American glycobiologist and academic administrator serving as the provost of the University of Illinois Chicago since 2023. She is a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics and the editor-in-chief of Glycobiology.
